Knema globularia(Lam.) Warb.

WFO wfo-0001085244 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Knema globularia, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. a Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-20 / obs. 60047924
Knema globularia, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. b Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60047922
Knema globularia, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. c Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60122732
Knema globularia, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. d Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60122733
Knema globularia, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. e Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60047914
Knema globularia, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. f Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60047930
Knema globularia, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. g Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60047919
Knema globularia, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. h Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60047907

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Knema globularia is native: China South-Central, Assam, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralAssamCambodiaEast HimalayaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Knema globularia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Knema bicolor Raf.
  • Knema corticosa Lour.
  • Knema corticosa var. tonkinensis Warb.
  • Knema missionis (Wall. ex King) Warb.
  • Knema petelotii Merr.
  • Knema sphaerula (Hook.f.) Airy Shaw
  • Knema wangii Hu
  • Myristica corticosa (Lour.) Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Myristica globularia Lam.
  • Myristica lanceolata Wall.
  • Myristica microcarpa Willd.
  • Myristica missionis Wall. ex King
  • Myristica sphaerula Hook.f.
  • Palala corticosa (Lour.) Kuntze
  • Palala globularia (Lam.) Kuntze
  • Palala sphaerula (Hook.f.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.